Radio ABC: "She's been called the "the Beatnik Boadicea," "the Paganini of criticism ", and "the dark lady of American letters." Susan Sontag was a critic, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, a public intellectual and a celebrity, a magazine cover girl, and a subject for TV impersonators and gossip columnists. The author of groundbreaking works like On Photography and Illness as Metaphor she wrote about war, art, poverty, freedom, the meaning of history, and human suffering. She earnt adulation, but also provoked scorn. We analyse both the legacy of Sontag's work and her personality on the release of a new book." Listen/Download here
